Ugly Canada 2 (Only architecture, planning and design faux pas) - Page 430

cranes · #**8581** Posted **Apr 4, 2026, 3:21 AM**

Some people feel the latest building to top off in Kitchener belongs in this thread...

1001 King Street E, Kitchener (@Borden ION Station)

CTV Kitchener News 2026Apr1 6pm: 44min47sec - Topping off ceremony

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35 weeks later, this 29-story apartment from Vive Development Corporation is nearing completion! Currently featuring 267 units, this 203,000 square foot building was designed to allow of a second phase in the future.
Reinders + Associates Ltd. - Architecture + Engineering
Jablonsky, Ast and Partners
MTE Consultants
Jackman Ltd.

MolsonExport · #**8582** Posted **Apr 4, 2026, 6:40 PM**

Some of those photos make downtown KW look rather big. I remember what the skyline looked like in the late 1990s when I first joined SSP....there wasn't much other than the Dolly Parton building.

Wigs · #**8583** Posted **Apr 4, 2026, 6:48 PM**

hideous modern "bunker" style home asking $3.6M in Fort Erie, Ontario (Ridgeway) on Lake Erie. Almost 4 million for this?

Google Streetview: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BreB2A8muDi4STgH6

flooring looks "builder grade" Home Depot special

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/29397417/3323-lakecrest-court-fort-erie-ridgeway-335-ridgeway

the most ridiculous pretentious over the top video haha

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EnvisionSaintJohn · #**8584** Posted **Apr 4, 2026, 6:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by cranes

Some people feel the latest building to top off in Kitchener belongs in this thread...

1001 King Street E, Kitchener (@Borden ION Station)

CTV Kitchener News 2026Apr1 6pm: 44min47sec - Topping off ceremony

• Video Link

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stubbe%27...-from-activity-7441941452198182912-ZfN8/
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I think it’s simple and wonderful. White is the most environmentally friendly colour too… would love to see the government fund more high rise housing like this across the country that featured rental units that were both affordable and desirable!

MolsonExport · #**8585** Posted **Apr 9, 2026, 5:42 PM**

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Imagine what this looks like on a grey day in late March, with even more dilapidated
Tempos and ugly snowbanks crusted in black grit and grime and faded dogshit.

Montreal Nord is for lovers.

O-tacular · #**8586** Posted **Apr 9, 2026, 6:02 PM**

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Imagine what this looks like on a grey day in late March, with even more dilapidated
Tempos and ugly snowbanks crusted in black grit and grime and faded dogshit.

Montreal Nord is for lovers.

Reminds me of another looming silhouette beside a group of multifamily housing:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Les+R%..._ep=EgoyMDI2MDQwNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Les+R%..._ep=EgoyMDI2MDQwNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

MolsonExport · #**8587** Posted **Apr 9, 2026, 6:55 PM**

ahhh, my eyes!!! You could have warned me. Eddy Savoie's most malevolent creation.

Imagine being out there in your backyard in the summer, firing up the BBQ. The sun is out, then it suddenly vanishes, as the Earth turns, because it's path is blocked by Clockzilla. Everyday, you look outside and see that monstrosity. You wonder if you will end up there, like that poor elderly lady begging Gillles Duceppe to rescue her. Heck, like Barad-Dur, it even has a cyclopian eye, balefully casting its gaze on all below, instantly turning anyone unlucky enough to stare back into helpless senior citizens.

O-tacular · #**8588** Posted **Apr 10, 2026, 3:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

ahhh, my eyes!!! You could have warned me. Eddy Savoie's most malevolent creation.

Imagine being out there in your backyard in the summer, firing up the BBQ. The sun is out, then it suddenly vanishes, as the Earth turns, because it's path is blocked by Clockzilla. Everyday, you look outside and see that monstrosity. You wonder if you will end up there, like that poor elderly lady begging Gillles Duceppe to rescue her. Heck, like Barad-Dur, it even has a cyclopian eye, balefully casting its gaze on all below, instantly turning anyone unlucky enough to stare back into helpless senior citizens.

When it runs out of seniors Clockzilla will harvest nearby residents to fulfill its' insatiable appetite for souls.

Perhaps that is why Eddy expanded his reach into Ontario to attract rave goers to become future victims.

O-tacular · #**8589** Posted **Apr 10, 2026, 3:32 PM**

While checking out the streetview nearby Les Residences Soleil Manoir St. Leonard I made a shocking discovery.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Les+R%..._ep=EgoyMDI2MDQwNy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

There is a competing cyclopian seniors apartment a block away!!!

https://www.google.com/maps/place/R%C3%A..._ep=EgoyMDI2MDQwNy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Cogir Senior Living!!! It's like a more competent (though hideously tacky) version of Eddy Savoie's vision for Les Residences Soleil!

They love mansard roofs and faux stone castle aesthetics.

Clockzilla's fraternal twin! Is there another Eddy Savoie too?

WTF is going on?!?

MolsonExport · #**8590** Posted **Apr 10, 2026, 4:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

When it runs out of seniors Clockzilla will harvest nearby residents to fulfill its' insatiable appetite for souls.

Perhaps that is why Eddy expanded his reach into Ontario to attract rave goers to become future victims.

This is perfect. It goes well together. Eddy Savoie's mausoleum. Where you can go and worship his remains, and think about how his Manoir Soleil's cast darkness (in contradiction to their names) on thousands of people while warehousing seniors.

O-tacular · #**8591** Posted **Apr 16, 2026, 10:58 PM**

This is supposedly from Omaha but looks like it would fit in suburban Calgary.

O-tacular · #**8592** Posted **Apr 16, 2026, 11:01 PM**

Ottawa's mayor should consider hiring image consultants...

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Ottawa mayor responds after 'good morning' photo series went viral (in a bad way)
Mark Sutcliffe posts almost every day with a photo taken during his morning run or while travelling across the city.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-hellscape-ottawa-mayor-photo

O-tacular · #**8593** Posted **Apr 16, 2026, 11:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

that chicken on the way reminds me of some of the external decorations/signage for Quebec casse-croutes. Ugly but sort of kitschy-charming too.

I fucking love these places:

Chicken on the Way is rumoured to have a swingers club in the basement. Would give Chez Ben's slogan "On s'bour" a funny double entendre. Not to mention what appears to be a neon hotdog eating action sign...

Pavlov · #**8594** Posted **Apr 17, 2026, 1:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by Wigs

hideous modern "bunker" style home asking $3.6M in Fort Erie, Ontario (Ridgeway) on Lake Erie. Almost 4 million for this?

Google Streetview: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BreB2A8muDi4STgH6

flooring looks "builder grade" Home Depot special

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/29397417/3323-lakecrest-court-fort-erie-ridgeway-335-ridgeway

the most ridiculous pretentious over the top video haha

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I don't hate it. Don't think it meets the threshold for this thread.

Gresto · #**8595** Posted **Apr 17, 2026, 3:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

ahhh, my eyes!!! You could have warned me. Eddy Savoie's most malevolent creation.

Imagine being out there in your backyard in the summer, firing up the BBQ. The sun is out, then it suddenly vanishes, as the Earth turns, because it's path is blocked by Clockzilla. Everyday, you look outside and see that monstrosity. You wonder if you will end up there, like that poor elderly lady begging Gillles Duceppe to rescue her. Heck, like Barad-Dur, it even has a cyclopian eye, balefully casting its gaze on all below, instantly turning anyone unlucky enough to stare back into helpless senior citizens.

Poor downcast, dejected Duceppe in the humiliating snood. That was his Stanfield-fumble moment.

niwell · #**8596** Posted **Apr 17, 2026, 1:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Ottawa's mayor should consider hiring image consultants...

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-hellscape-ottawa-mayor-photo

Wayyyyy back in the day (2005?) I remember doing a photo-thread of ugly inner-suburban Ottawa at the tail-end of winter. This could have easily been one of the shots, and is pretty representative of certain parts of the city during the snow-melt.

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

This is supposedly from Omaha but looks like it would fit in suburban Calgary.

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Wigs · #**8597** Posted **Apr 17, 2026, 4:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

This is supposedly from Omaha but looks like it would fit in suburban Calgary.

PooP

(once you see it, you cannot unsee it)

Wigs · #**8598** Posted **Apr 17, 2026, 4:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Pavlov

I don't hate it. Don't think it meets the threshold for this thread.

I will hate on the bunker or mausoleum trend of McMansion houses just like I hate the everything grey and greige trend that thankfully is going out of style.

The flooring choice of the Fort Erie waterfront house looks so cheap to me. Nothing says elegant about it.